Malevolent podcast, part 8! Eps 23-25
And now we're into the home stretch~~~
Don't ask questions you don't want answers to, Arthur. Delicious.
Oh, it correlated because Arthur just got monched on
"Why are we naked" NOT A GOOD QUESTION TO HAVE
Oh the floor is screaming that's casual
I mean, at least you're in nice digs?
Mmm. *side-eyes* You're wearing a bow-tie, I can't trust you
Why does he know your name?
Arthur all "do I look like I can buy the place"
Okay, good, Arthur also skeptical AF
"If we stay here we die" 8 ball says "Most likely yes"
I can absolutely see this as a video game sequence with the lightning and blackness
"What made you like him?" Yellow, you bein' transparent
Welcome to being the voice of reason, Yellow!
You think he's not going to notice the cold and the rain from the window opening? But better than being found!
"NOT HELPING"
Yellow "MAYBE IF YOU WERE AFRAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THIS BS"
Time for Yellow to be all ". . . I cannot believe you are doing this and not dying"
Y'all want to take a minute to get the star-footed bestiary deets?
Heart to hearts in a storage room~ aww, Yellow trying hard
"A levitating massive black stone" - thaaaat's the mountain guys
And a secret door!
Oh you guys gonna walk straight back into this guy
Who is Older Than He Looks, of course
Toot toot magic flute~ to control the invisible monster I'm guessing
And you have now activated the magic security alarm system
Ah we meet the owner of the femur?
Larson absolutely follows the Classic Villain playbook
WELP you took longer to get the point of the game, Arthur
"Wasn't" - I am going to guess that didn't hold super long
Cord is going to be a garrotte, I bet
OH but not the way I expected, yikes
Ohhhhh okay that's fucked
And then he was dinner. . . but not without some EYAGH
"Did I interrupt something?"
"I didn't peg you for a Catholic" *wheeze* that's a hilarious way of saying "I thought you were a cultist."
Yeah this guy is a creep
Arthur you are slow to get what I thought was your opening line
Okay that's . . . *grimace face*
Ohhh boy
And we hit Arthur's berserk button / breaking point, Arthur is going to fucking kill you
Ding ding ding, I am a winner
Yellow, you are being a dick and Arthur is breaking down apparently
And now we have an elegy for John
OH OH That is a Development!!
"Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?!"
And now back to your regularly scheduled shit show! Petition for Arthur to have an hour or two of breaking down crying before passing out in exhaustion.
"You have your hand back!" Arthur, alarmingly happy to lose autonomy for company
Please remember the magic flute if you still have it
"You look like shit" Thanks, buddy, glad to see you too
"It was you without the -you-"
Arthur all "I have a man to kill."
You found the cultist's temple!
Are you sure you didn't just hit another mirror
Time for panic attack!
And John gets to be the moral voice
*side-eyes* Wow that honey moon period was short
"I guess" . . . Mmm that was not super positive
Box puzzle!
How many people have the Larsons chucked down here?
. . . Or they live here now
"We never actually tried waiting"
Time to talk~~~
You are doing whatever the opposite of back-handed compliments are
Arthur, my dude you are not good at this, but that is probably because you need ALL THE THERAPY
And you are realizing it, that's something
Oh okay he is accruing scars
AND NOW YOU REMEMBER THE FLUTE
One of them, one of them~ Introduce yourself to your new neighbors
Dinner bell has been rung!
At least that's relatively quick???
Time to hide in the pantry~
Oh we're back to this again
I get the parallel they're making here but I'm also sort of like . . . how are we expected to believe they completely swapped morals?
*eyes Arthur* ALL the therapy
"I'm not angry I'm disappointed"
Arthur I would also like you get your shit together
Go back into the estate to find your bag and the flute?
You are definitely getting your cardio in today
That's not quiet, John
The lighter is definitely Arthur's own talisman - which does explain why Killing it With Fire worked so well. I do kinda wonder if the other magic objects are also coming from individual people
Time for your colonial bullshit to be questioned, Arthur
*pokes Arthur* You need to get your head around the fact you killed someone. Not accidental manslaughter this time, but very deliberately. It wasn't necessarily premeditated murder but you sure as fuck don't have a high ground. And you may very well have caused other people to die.
"Nothing that doesn't come with experience" Or PTSD
"I've only done this to survive" not ALL of it
And that's your problem, Arthur, you need to own that if you're going to kill people or cause them to die by your inaction you need a reason for it, and you need to decide if the reasons are good enough for your morals. And the demon in your head is your Jimminy Cricket right now
~~~Cuuuuuult~~~
Yellow King knows them, that's not great
"Things military" gives you deja vu, hmmm
Arthur, you are not doing a great job of being forthcoming
Yikes that is a way to go
Yeah, John is getting all the psychic damage
"We can go home!" - What do you think is still there four months later?
"I'm okay, are you okay?"
Open the goddamn door Arthur
"Yet" that's worrying
. . . Cain? You be playin?
OPEN THE DOOR, ARTHUR
It's a temple, you idiot
John you are NOT HELPING
. . . And his head exploded, didn't it.
I scream at the top of my lungs, "What's going on?"
"Blackstone" = the floating mountain that people were worshiping and/or the mountain you're literally in right now
. . . That was a switch, Arthur
Yiiiiiiikes, that's a note to end on.
So clearly we've got more story coming, and I am Invested to see where it goes.
I am still frustrated at the see-saw of characterizations, like it's getting fast-forwarded too much to really explain or feel why. Telling not showing, I guess? It does make me think as a writer what's working and what isn't. The creator's getting better at the medium as they go, so I think it's been a really good learning experience.
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